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[Scalyback]

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I wasn't intending to pad the forum out with films, but a little road safety goes a long way, and as usual, Australia had it's own possibly unique way. This is from 1959.











Next up is some bum numbing rubbish! Nice footage, but a road safety on the cheap. Firstly, the narrator with an english accent talks from the point of view of driving on the left, whilst this piece of continental footage has everybody driving on the right! My personal favourite gaff is at 10:35. The narrator mentions about moving out to the right to see better, whilst the continental rider is shown moving out to the left. AND opening music is the sound track from The Rockford Files!



If you wish to skip though it, do take a look at 10:35 with the caravan! A right 1970 lash up!

[Les]

It looks like Johnny was riding a BSA A10 I have found a tatty picture of my A10 it is the solo bike on the right the combination with the plunger rear suspension was my brothers


In case we have half the people around the world in a search to find the location I will give the location the building in the background is Islington Town Hall London

[Scalyback]

someone suggested it was a tiger cub?



Les, you had a Matchless 250 and a BSA A10, whilst your brother had a cable car gondola strapped to his bike?


Wonderful.

[Les]

My A10 was a bit of an old dog but my brothers all though an older bike was really nice until he let one of his friends have a go at driving it he lost control and drove it into a wall hence the missing screen also the forks were bent and collapsed we made it sort of driveable by jacking the front up and filling the forks right up with oil which made the front end solid I can not remember what happened to it the end of a really good bike

[Martin]

Scaly,I know you've contributeds so much on here,
but the fifties OZ video isjust too embarrasing to watch!
The lads portrayed would be 'bodgies' I know, as I was one
then, so cool and hep with my coat embellished with a US
Indian logo on the back as ex WD 741B and WLA750s were
still around back then. Cafe racers were unknown, everything
mostly Brit, disposabele w/Western handlebars and bobbed
rear fenders de riguer. Police were scorned,so 'tis unlikely
anyone would consider their 'square' helmets,as this would
mess with our Bylcreemed ducktailed hair, so crucial whilst
jukebox jiving then. Scenarioh highly likely played out in
paddocks near a NSW coastline urban area, Hardly Outback
which is hundres of miles inland. Nevertheless,brought back
memories of how many Brit. 'bikes one went through back then.

[Norm]

Scaly can't see any theatre there, it is just how it was, could have been any cafe in the city. It must have been filmed in NSW because the start doesn't look like anywhere in Melb I can think of, looks more like Sydney, and the dirt track, certainly not outback, probably 20/30 miles out of Sydney and we often had days like that. It looks to be early sixties but not sure when helmets became compulsory in NSW, but from memory Vic was the first

[Scalyback]

YAY!


I only mentioned 'outback' as it's one of those aussie words that I remember!



It's still a great film! Sod all that arm signal rubbish, get them down the track and watch them crash, YAY!

[Norm]

Scaly, out back is crossing the Nullabore where there is a dead straight road for 90 miles and that is only one little section

[Scalyback]

I guess it stands for 'null and a bore' as there is nothing there other than a railway line?

[Chief]

It is Nullarbor meaning treeless plain, null arbor.

Cheers Charles